Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Application Insights!

Creating APIs and Microservices with Azure Functions Christos Matskas - Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft

Azure Functions and Logic Apps are the backbone of Microsoft’s Serverless framework. Azure Functions introduce an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that provides a radical new approach on how you set up and run tasks, create APIs and microservices. Where they truly shine is in the great interoperability they provide with lots of Azure services, SaaS products, and on-premises systems. Join Christos and learn how you can create and run scalable performant APIs and microservices using Azure Functions, you favourite language and open source tools like Visual Studio Code or the Azure CLI. The new kid on the block is all about disrupting the traditional model for developers and enterprises and this session will show you why.

Proactive monitoring with Azure AppInsightsChristos Matskas - Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft

Not just any monitoring, but proactive monitoring! The kind that helps you and your team identify issues before your users have a chance to tweet, email or instagram that issue that affects their smooth user experience. Developers are delighted, Operations teams are ecstatic and managers can finally focus on creating awesome teams and products instead of firefighting issue after issue. Visual Studio (Code) tooling, intelligent monitoring, advance analytics, dependency maps and devops integration are some of the awesome features that AppInsights have to offer. Don't believe me? Great! Join me in this session and let me prove you wrong!

About Christos Matskas

Christos Matskas is a software developer, blogger, speaker and all around geek. He currently works at Microsoft as an Azure Premier Field Engineer. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur and has collaborated with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 12 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contributes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the community to make the software development space bigger and better.

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